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Busboy and poets dc deaf9/28/2023 ![]() The truth was that I was not being properly compensated, and so I burned out. When I was serving as the Literary Chair of the Arts Club of Washington, the number one misconception was that I was getting paid for my work-planning programs, publicizing, hosting. ![]() Meaningful wages for the Poets in Residence. Revenues attached to poetry events would easily absorb the additional cost to the venue. But as any poet will tell you, $100 feels like real money. Some have suggested per capita, but I think that is too difficult to calculate-overflow from the main dining room gets seated in the reading rooms, people who are just there to eat. A doubling of the honorarium for featured readers, from $50 to $100. Let's use this opportunity to articulate ways in which Busboys & Poets could even better serve the artistic community that it wishes to champion. Here is what I would like to see: The loss of the cut-out is of little material damage to the venue (frankly, this kerfluffle will get more people in the door). People are labeling the theft as amateurish. ![]() I think the follow-up comments from Kyle Dargan, Dan Vera, Brian Gilmore, and Fred Joiner (in a separate forum) further underscore the importance of this moment as being an indicator of a larger tension. You can order a carrot juice instead of a cocktail and the waiters don't look down on you.īut they're getting some things wrong as they grow bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger, and I think A Certain Poet was right to call them out on it by liberating their incredibly tone-deaf cut-out of Langston Hughes. They have a menu that is sensitive to vegan and allergy needs. They employ awesome people like Derrick Weston Brown and Holly Bass as poets in residence. They provide partnership and shelter to such groups as Teaching for Change (which is responsible for the bookstore) and Split This Rock. They provide a lively stage for poetry in this town. I appreciate Busboys & Poets on many levels.
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